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Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

China is on borrowed time for economic, social and governmental collapse.

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UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

chemosh6969 posted:

Cancers always start out small but if you let it grow, bad things can happen down the road.

We already tried "chemo" on the Jews, if that's what you mean.

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

chemosh6969 posted:

As a master psychic, I predict the US will do nothing except allow China to continue to develop weapons to attack the greatest country in the world because the only people we're willing to fight are donkey people, and even then we lose. As for the Ukraine, Russia can do what it wants to it. It's not like we cared enough to defend it in the first place.

As interesting as these articles are, it'd be more fitting if they all just said "Once again, the US does nothing for the future."

There's literally nothing we can do (non-militarily) to Russia that will have any impact unless Europe hops on board with us and they won't because they're wholly dependent on Russian gas and oil to run their countries or will be benefiting from future pipelines that will run through those countries.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Bolow posted:

There's literally nothing we can do (non-militarily) to Russia that will have any impact unless Europe hops on board with us and they won't because they're wholly dependent on Russian gas and oil to run their countries or will be benefiting from future pipelines that will run through those countries.

I was going to post on this but there's a Russia sanctions package working through the EU that:

- restricts arms sales but still lets the French sell Rus their helo carriers
- doesn't touch German exports to Rus
- doesn't touch oil and gas imports, because obviously it can't
- restricts financial trading in a way that screws London a lot harder than Moscow. Which realistically is necessary and would be fine, except for all of the above stuff where no one else in west Euro takes any pain.

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
LA Times reporting that brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzi, Hashmat Karzi was assassinated Tuesday morning in Kandahar province.

HASHMAT was greeting visitors at his home for Eid al-Fitr when an attacker blew himself up while embracing Karzai, AP reports citing a provincial government official.

Phone posting no link sry

chemosh6969
Jul 3, 2004

code:
cat /dev/null > /etc/professionalism

I am in fact a massive asswagon.
Do not let me touch computer.

Bolow posted:

There's literally nothing we can do (non-militarily) to Russia that will have any impact unless Europe hops on board with us and they won't because they're wholly dependent on Russian gas and oil to run their countries or will be benefiting from future pipelines that will run through those countries.

I'd be happy with something small like a large exercise related to something going on with Russia. Like the ones we'd do in Korea that would get NK to start telling us to not do it because they'll destroy us.

chemosh6969
Jul 3, 2004

code:
cat /dev/null > /etc/professionalism

I am in fact a massive asswagon.
Do not let me touch computer.

Waroduce posted:

LA Times reporting that brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzi, Hashmat Karzi was assassinated Tuesday morning in Kandahar province.

HASHMAT was greeting visitors at his home for Eid al-Fitr when an attacker blew himself up while embracing Karzai, AP reports citing a provincial government official.

Phone posting no link sry

The explosives were stored in the attackers' turban.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Waroduce posted:

LA Times reporting that brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzi, Hashmat Karzi was assassinated Tuesday morning in Kandahar province.

HASHMAT was greeting visitors at his home for Eid al-Fitr when an attacker blew himself up while embracing Karzai, AP reports citing a provincial government official.

Phone posting no link sry

Is this the corrupt-to-the-core drug-dealing brother? Because if so it's probably a net positive.

embee
Jun 18, 2004

Waroduce posted:

LA Times reporting that brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzi, Hashmat Karzi was assassinated Tuesday morning in Kandahar province.

HASHMAT was greeting visitors at his home for Eid al-Fitr when an attacker blew himself up while embracing Karzai, AP reports citing a provincial government official.

Phone posting no link sry

Is this the same brother that was implicated in smuggling/selling heroin?

efb :(

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
In unrelated news, China is fuckin around with Microsoft.

Chinese gov forces have raided microsoft offices across the country


http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2357581/chinese-authorities-mysteriously-raid-microsoft-offices

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008

Zeroisanumber posted:

Is this the corrupt-to-the-core drug-dealing brother? Because if so it's probably a net positive.

I think thats Ahmed

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Waroduce posted:

In unrelated news, China is fuckin around with Microsoft.

Chinese gov forces have raided microsoft offices across the country


http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2357581/chinese-authorities-mysteriously-raid-microsoft-offices

Seems to me that stifling any foreign competition so that domestic corporations have an easier time is a great way to make sure that domestic corporations stay poo poo forever.

Of course I guess that doesn't matter if you just steal everything.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Bolow posted:

There's literally nothing we can do (non-militarily) to Russia that will have any impact unless Europe hops on board with us and they won't because they're wholly dependent on Russian gas and oil to run their countries or will be benefiting from future pipelines that will run through those countries.

Almost all credit card payments processing runs through New York, as does a whole lot of other global money supply issues. The US is sitting on a giant economic nuclear weapon.

chemosh6969
Jul 3, 2004

code:
cat /dev/null > /etc/professionalism

I am in fact a massive asswagon.
Do not let me touch computer.

Waroduce posted:

In unrelated news, China is fuckin around with Microsoft.

Chinese gov forces have raided microsoft offices across the country


http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2357581/chinese-authorities-mysteriously-raid-microsoft-offices

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-microsoft-china-idUSKBN0FX0TY20140728?irpc=932

That's the original article the blogger lifted from.

I like how the inquirer link says "mysteriously" when there's nothing mysterious about it.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Best Friends posted:

Almost all credit card payments processing runs through New York, as does a whole lot of other global money supply issues. The US is sitting on a giant economic nuclear weapon.

They won't use it unless Russia outright invades Ukraine. It would be ridiculously hawkish and would alarm a lot of other countries if it was done without a really grievous casus belli.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Zeroisanumber posted:

Is this the corrupt-to-the-core drug-dealing brother? Because if so it's probably a net positive.
The you're probably thinking of (Mr. Kandahar) was assassinated a few years back. Mind you the guy who just got killed is a Karzai, so it's likely that nothing of value has been lost.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

quote:

Body of 'apparent stowaway' found in U.S. Air Force plane that traversed Africa
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/29/world/europe/germany-plane-body-found/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

:laugh:

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Are you telling me that Phoenix Raven has failed us?!

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

chemosh6969 posted:

I'd be happy with something small like a large exercise related to something going on with Russia. Like the ones we'd do in Korea that would get NK to start telling us to not do it because they'll destroy us.

Yes, using NATO's extensive non-US land, sea and air assets. What if we threw a REFORGER and nobody came?

Although to be honest a proper Able Archer 14 would be rad as hell

Waroduce posted:

In unrelated news, China is fuckin around with Microsoft.

Chinese gov forces have raided microsoft offices across the country

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2357581/chinese-authorities-mysteriously-raid-microsoft-offices

Did I ever post the article on how the Chinese stole all the info in your security clearance?

quote:

The intrusion at the Office of Personnel Management was particularly disturbing because it oversees a system called e-QIP, in which federal employees applying for security clearances enter their most personal information, including financial data. Federal employees who have had security clearances for some time are often required to update their personal information through the website.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Snowdens Secret posted:

Yes, using NATO's extensive non-US land, sea and air assets. What if we threw a REFORGER and nobody came?

Although to be honest a proper Able Archer 14 would be rad as hell

It might even get us all nuked this time around.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country
http://nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/europe/european-sanctions-russia.html

Obama announces the newest round of sanctions against Russia.

Highlights include no longer able to sell energy extraction tech to Gazprom and adding more banks to the blacklist.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Genocide Tendency posted:

They could, and should turn Gaza into Dresden circa 1945.

Looks like they're giving your advice a shot:
The Atlantic: Bloody Weekend in Gaza :nws:



chemosh6969
Jul 3, 2004

code:
cat /dev/null > /etc/professionalism

I am in fact a massive asswagon.
Do not let me touch computer.

BigDave posted:

http://nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/europe/european-sanctions-russia.html

Obama announces the newest round of sanctions against Russia.

Highlights include no longer able to sell energy extraction tech to Gazprom and adding more banks to the blacklist.

Don't worry, the French are still able to sell them warships.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/50691002

lol i'm not sure israel is even pretending anymore

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/50691002

lol i'm not sure israel is even pretending anymore

:stare: Holy crap.

What's their strategy, strike package the Gaza strip and call it a day?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I wouldn't be surprised if the leadership secretly wanted to perform an alpha strike on all of Gaza.

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

BigDave posted:

:stare: Holy crap.

What's their strategy, strike package the Gaza strip and call it a day?

about time

if we get lucky itll look something like this when theyre done

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Maybe they're just loving going for it this time. Why stop if everybody's pissed off already anyways?

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/50691002

lol i'm not sure israel is even pretending anymore

:flashfap:

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Maybe they're just loving going for it this time. Why stop if everybody's pissed off already anyways?

They can pretty much go until we stop selling them bombs to go with, but they have to balance the short-term gratification of leveling Gaza against the long-term pain of increasing alienation from the EU.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


Somehow I don't think the Jews are overly concerned with what the Europeans think of them.
Their only issue is the US.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
Even when we say "bad dog" we still feed them endless treats when the missus isn't looking.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Certain parts of the Israeli press are actively anti-American and the US just ignores it like a battered housewife.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Fojar38 posted:

Certain parts of the Israeli press are actively anti-American and the US just ignores it like a battered housewife.

Israel isn't getting poo poo over the US no matter what it looks like

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

Israel isn't getting poo poo over the US no matter what it looks like

Well yeah, but it looks bad.

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

about time

if we get lucky itll look something like this when theyre done



Even decimated 1940s German architecture looks better than what those savages throw up on their best day.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
The only reason we give a poo poo about Israel is that there isn't a well-financed Palestinian lobby that can turn out the vote.

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris
This is apropos of absolutely nothing, but I today I listened to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMxFsFeAoc two hour long :lol:fest/drone debate on my stitcher app while cutting some grass.

Christine Fair is annoying as gently caress, and the UK dudes made me lol.

Both sides raised interesting points, but none of them truly addressed how to effectively eradicate mankind.

Lazy Reservist
Nov 30, 2005

FUBIJAR
Der Judenreich seems to finally be applying L2 from 1939-1945. Looks like Poland Gaza is being blitzed and Sudentenland the West Bank is next. Of course, Russia's Premier is just dying to implement Holodomor Part two. And with the rise of the new Caliphate, we get all the oppression of the Ottoman Empire, sans the whimsy. Plus, the Norks just said they wanted to nuke the White House and Pentagon (Dear God, please do!), but this seems like more of their micro-penis waving aggression. The PRC is spending itself into oblivion, despite putting out some pretty cool tech. If the US dollar ever collapses, they'll realize they're left holding the world's biggest bar tab, while the drunk who left them with it is laughing all the way home. Bottom line, the world is going to poo poo, we can't (or won't) do poo poo about it, and the only thing left to do is wait to ride the mushroom cloud. Pending any questions, this concludes my briefing.

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



We really need shim back, THANKS FOR NOTHING WHIP.

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